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🎸 Fingerstyle: Bass + Melody, Combined
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LESSON #620 Click to watch free video lesson In today’s mini-lesson I’ll teach you a short, melodic fingerstyle groove inspired by Billy Joe Shaver’s classic Live Forever. Instead of teaching you the full song, I’ll take the core melody (heard in the intro) and show you three ways to play it using fingerstyle guitar. Each approach combines bass notes and melody, which you can play with just two fingers on your picking hand. Whether you're new to fingerstyle or much further along your journey, the three versions I teach will assuredly give you a fun little nugget to sink your teeth into. Start simple and build! Head on over to my lesson #620 webpage to get all my additional materials for this lesson. This includes print-friendly tabs, zoomed playthroughs of each of the 3 levels I teach, and a "Part 2" video where I show how to play this same riff in two other capo positions. SNEAK PEEK! I'm happy to announce the first 13 lessons from my upcoming Travis Picking Essentials course are online and ready to view! I still have a fair number of lessons to add (including PDFs for each lesson), but I'm confident this first batch of lessons provides a ton of value as-is. This is a true step-by-step course, starting with the absolute basics and building on things with each lesson. All the tutorials are broken into modules, allowing you to spend time with each technique before moving on to the next module. See my course overview page for a bunch of additional details — including what's still to come and when to expect it to be fully wrapped up. If you're a Premium member on my Song Notes website, you can view all existing lessons (and exercise videos) right now! Thanks all, and until next week – happy picking! ✌️ David |
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Learn to play guitar with weekly video lessons & print-friendly guides! Learn your favorite songs & techniques with step-by-step tutorials that actually explain how to get from here to there.
LESSON #619Free Fallin' by Tom Petty Click to view free video lesson » In today’s lesson I’ll teach you to play Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty, which I consider an all-timer as far as guitar songs go. Whether you're a beginner or much more far along in your journey, this song gives us plenty to have fun with. Here's what I tackle: 0:00 Lesson Overview 1:19 Campfire Version (no capo) 3:55 Fancy Chords: Capo 3 6:58 Fancy Chords: Capo 1 11:50 Strumming & Rhythm 15:34 Performance Tips 17:50...
HAPPY OPENING DAY!Learn the Iconic "Centerfield" Intro Riff Click to watch free video lesson To all the baseball fans out there... I wanted to re-share this lesson I made last spring, in case you missed it. I break down the opening riff to Centerfield by John Fogerty, with my usual step-by-step guidance. I also have a sing & strum lesson available for this song, if you want to learn to play the full song, from start to finish. Such a fun song! Step-by-step practice notes, audio practice...
Must-Know Guitarist Tech Tip! Click to watch free video lesson Happy Monday, my friends — brand new lesson today featuring an incredibly helpful tip: adjusting the key of any YouTube video. Specifically, I’ll show you how to use the free Chrome plugin Transpose – which lets you easily transpose any video to a different key (as well as fine tune the pitch, adjust the speed down, create loops, etc). This started with a question I received from Song Notes member Randy, who asked: I have been...